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American Jerusalem
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American Jerusalem (2013) tells the story of the first 66 years of Jewish settlement in Northern California, specifically in San Francisco.
Commentary: The Jewish community is unique in Jewish history, in that nowhere else in the Diaspora were Jews in the majority during the early settlement period of a city. The Jewish community developed differently as a result of this, without the need to buttress itself against anti-Semitism until a much later period. Jewish families were "society" in early San Francisco, and they did not eat or live separately from their gentile neighbors. Even today, Jews in San Francisco have a curious mix of firm Jewish identity with a low rate of synagogue and other Jewish institutional affiliation. While some outsiders look at the demographics and say, "Wow, Judaism is in trouble in San Francisco," in fact the Jewish community there is vibrant and diverse. It was influential in shaping the past of the city and continues to be engaged with San Francisco's future.
The filmmakers were extremely selective in their choices, which may leave some old San Franciscan families wondering, "What about my ancestors?" but I think the choices allow viewers to appreciate the forest without losing their way in the trees. Certainly American Jerusalem is a tantalizing springboard from which one can launch into deeper reading (Fred Rosenbaum's book, Cosmopolitans, a Social and Cultural History of the Jews at the San Francisco Bay Area would be a great next step.)
Questions for Discussion:
1. Where are your Jewish roots? Do you have any connection with the Jewish community in San Francisco?
2. What are the roots of your current Jewish community? Who settled there, and when? Where did they immigrate from?
3. What circumstances contributed to the Jewish community of San Francisco being different from other American Jewish communities?
4. From this film, in what ways do you see the San Francisco Jewish community as distinct from your own Jewish community?
5. What questions did this film bring up for you?
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Posted in United States
Tagged American Jewish History, Documentary, Jewish Identity, Racism
You Don't Mess With the Zohan
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) is a Judd Apatow / Adam Sandler film: as Roger Ebert so beautifully put it, "a mighty hymn of and to vulgarity." It is a slapstick romp about a crack Mossad operative whose secret wish is to "stop the killing" and become a hairdresser in New York. Once there, he finds himself an outsider along with many Palestinians. They chase one another, in Keystone Cop fashion (but with more penis and hummus jokes) until the sets are destroyed and everyone is exhausted. I think that about sums it up.
I had to think a while about my comments on this film, because I hope that Sandler et al meant well. There are many jokes making fun of Israelis, some of it pretty rough humor, and to give Sandler the benefit of the doubt, I hope that he thought that those jokes were in balance with the jokes at the expense of the Arab characters. After all, the Zohan's love interest is a Palestinian woman!
But there is no getting past the fact that while the film plays with Israeli stereotypes (tough guy, the accent, the attitude, the Sabra heart of sweetness) it trades on a nastier stereotype of Arabs and Palestinians: the lust for Jewish blood and mindless hatred. The humor about the Zohan springs from the tension between his tough-guy Mossad persona and his true hairdresser lover-boy identity. The humor about the Arabs in this film does not come from any such tension: the men are mostly Wile E. Coyote to Zohan's RoadRunner, one-note idiots who repeatedly court disaster in hot comic pursuit of their quarry. The more benign Palestinian male characters are merely dim. This is racist stereotyping at its worst, because it is disguised as "all in good fun" while it sends the same old hateful messages. Worse yet, it is aimed specifically at young men.
For those who are saying, "Whoa! Don't you love Israel?" all I can say is, I dislike this film because I do love Israel. I am a deeply committed Zionist. I lived in Israel in 2002-3, during the Second Intifada. I dislike this film because I think that racism like this hurts Israel, and damages the chances for peace, because it tells young American men that Palestinian men are subhuman. I can point to Israeli films that take similar or even touchier subject matter and do so much better with it: for example, watch The Band's Visit. It's a wonderful, funny film that gets its comedy from the humanity of everyone in it.
For a contrast to a broad, sometimes vulgar comedy that tackles similar subject matter with much better results, take a look at The Infidel. Everyone in that movie is a complicated human being, with complicated motives and dreams that lead them into a comical collision. We all laugh together at the human condition: much, much better.
As for the way women are pictured in this film, I will just say: feh. I am very tired of Jewish filmmakers failing to work out their mommy issues — or going for the cheap laugh, which is worse — by dumping on women. Sandler and Apatow, you can do better!
Tagged Anti-Semitism, Arab, Comedy, Palestinian, Racism
An Education (2010) is a coming-of-age film based upon a memoir by British journalist Lynn Barbour, with a screenplay by Nick Hornby. A British schoolgirl, Jenny Mellor (played by Carey Mulligan) accepts a lift home from school from an older man, David Goldman, played by Peter Sarsgaard. The year is 1961, and the girl feels hemmed in by middle-class rules. She is afraid that the world is passing her by, until the charming man in the car offers her glamor and romance. She accepts his offer, and receives an education: to say much more would spoil any surprise the viewer might find in this film. The film won 18 awards out of 48 nominations, including 3 Oscar nominations, and it was critically well-received.
An Education's Jewish content and controversy begins with the fact that the David Goldman character is Jewish. Anti-Semitism twice figures into the plot in an overt manner: first, before David's entrance, Jenny's father (played brilliantly by Alfred Molina) refers to Jenny's non-Jewish suitor as a "Wandering Jew," summoning up a figure from European anti-Semitic folklore. Then, when Jenny is about to introduce David, who has told her that he is Jewish, she taunts her father to watch himself, since David is "a wandering Jew." Mr. Mellor blusters that he's not an anti-Semite, it's just a figure of speech, etc. etc. and is thereby silenced regarding whatever opinions he might have regarding David's Jewishness. The second overt anti-Semitic moment in the film comes when Jenny tells the school mistress (played by Emma Thompson) that she intends to marry David:
Headmistress: "He's a Jew? You're aware, I take it, that the Jews killed our Lord?"
Jenny: "And you're aware, I suppose, that our Lord was Jewish?"
Headmistress: "I suppose he told you that. We're all very sorry about what happened during the war. But that's absolutely no excuse for that sort of malicious and untruthful propaganda."
Jenny's response? She prefers to spend his money and live glamorously than to do the boring work of study, and she insolently suggests the headmistress prepare better for the next time a girl wants to know why she should get an education.
The casual viewer might see the film and say, as many have, that David's Jewishness is incidental to the film, or merely an opportunity to display the narrow-mindedness of the conventional middle-class British mindset of 1961. Indeed, the screenwriter has said that the character is Jewish only because the real con man in the memoir was Jewish. However, as the Lynn Barber observes in an interview about the process of making a her memoir into a film, a lot of other details were changed on the way from one medium to another, so it seems quite fair to ask: why is this detail left in place?
This points us towards a question of a much deeper, more pervasive anti-Semitism in the film, an issue originally raised in an article in the Jewish Journal. David fits many of the ugliest stereotypes purveyed by anti-Semites, indeed, precisely the attributes of the Wandering Jew cited in the beginning of the film. He is an urban and urbane character, at home in the fashionable salons about town. He makes his money by speculating on property values in middle-class white neighborhoods he deliberately devalues by importing black residents; he is an art speculator and a petty thief. When challenged by Jenny about his thievery, he justifies his crimes by citing his lack of opportunity, "We're not clever like you." He eventually emerges as having made a hobby out of the ruin of nice English girls. In short, he is the personification of the parasitical Jew in Der Erwige Juden (The Eternal Jew, 1940). In fact, "Der Erwige Juden" is the German name for the figure of The Wandering Jew.
I confess I did not see this on my first viewing of the film, but upon reflection, it is all there and it's quite nasty, whatever the intent or non-intent of the filmmakers. I was not certain of it until I stumbled across a review of the film by a prominent anti-Semite, who writes that the film is a parable about the seduction of young people's minds and souls by evil Jews. I'm not going to cite or link that particular item, because I prefer not to give such garbage additional press. My point is that whatever the filmmakers did or did not intend, this film contains certain specific tropes regarding Jews that act as a magnet for a certain type of deranged person.
I wish they had left out the "Wandering Jew" business, and if it is not essential to the film that he's Jewish, then why make a point of it?
The Anti Defamation League has gone on record saying that they don't think harm was intended. After reading interviews with the filmmakers and the memoirist, I tend to agree. However, I think that the meme of the Wandering Jew is strong stuff that a filmmaker should use only in a very intentional manner, and that this film is fodder for haters.
Posted in United Kingdom
Tagged Anti-Semitism, Drama, Feminist, Racism
I have not yet had an opportunity to write a commentary for this film, but I recommend the comments on it in The Top 10 Interfaith Films by Michael Fox.
Tagged Interfaith, Racism
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Tagged Anti-Semitism, Racism
Live and Become
Posted on August 21, 2009 | Leave a comment
Live and Become (2005) [French title: Va, vis et deviens] is a wrenching tale of exile and assimilation, both topics that resonate for Jews. The twist, for Jewish viewers, is that the central character is an Ethiopian who at age 9 is pushed by his refugee Christian mother into a group of Falashas, Ethiopian Jews who are rescued from Sudan by "Operation Moses." For the rest of the film, Schlomo (a name he is given by the Falasha woman who adopts him) has to hide his birth as a Christian while assimilating into a new Israeli Jewish identity. The film follows his life until age 30. The film is not short (140 minutes) and is in Amharic, French, and Hebrew, with English subtitles.
This film explores many topics, framed in the immigrant's experience: issues of identity, of racism, of perseverance, of family. It is a valuable and moving film on many different levels. What struck me, for our purposes here, is that it is the best window I've seen into the emotional process of becoming Jewish.
Schlomo's conversion, if it is a conversion, is highly irregular: he is adopted on impulse by a Jewish woman who has lost her son, just as she leaves a refugee camp with a group bound for Israel. Before she dies of TB, she hurriedly schools him in his new family's history and warns him that he must keep the secret of his birth.
Schlomo (played by Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe, and Sirak M. Sabahat) does as he is told by his birth mother and his first adoptive mother: he lies. Out of the original lie, however, emerges something much more genuine: Schlomo pursues a Jewish education, becomes knowledgable enough to best another young scholar in a competition, and becomes a patriotic Israeli.
So how might this connect to the American convert to Judaism? There are echoes of the refugee experience for some new Jews: there are losses (the old life, sometimes even the old family) there is prejudice to face ("you don't look Jewish, you aren't really one of us"), and there is the struggle to assimilate into Jewish community, to learn not only the intellectual content but a million small things that every Jewish child (supposedly) knows: Chanukah songs and jokes about matzah, for instance. There are new foods to encounter: gefilte fish and chopped liver, presented with pride by a Jewish cook, are an excruciating experience for some on the first taste.
There was no beit din, no brit milah, no mikveh: but if Schlomo is not a Jew, what is he? The Falasha rabbi with whom he forms a bond (played by Yitzhak Elgar) says that he had misgivings about the first adoption when it took place, but their conversation implies that he has come to see Schlomo as legitimately Jewish. With his mention of the adoption and naming of Schlomo by Hana, whom he knew to be one of his Jews, he suggests that Schlomo perhaps did not need the intention to convert that would normally be asked of an adult. Once he was living in Israel, if he pursued a proper conversion, he'd have been deported to the camp in Sudan (and presumably that would have been a death sentence for a child whose mother had disappeared.) So is he Jewish? And if not, what should happen?
The film also raises questions about the tension between Torah and the realities of a modern State. How shall we reconcile the rules of the Law of Return with the commandment to love the stranger [Deuteronomy 10:19]?
Posted in France
Tagged Arab, Assimilation, Drama, Jewish Identity, Mizrachi, Racism, State of Israel
Life is Beautiful (1997) is not a Holocaust movie, even though half of the film is set in a concentration camp. Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote, directed, and starred in the film is one of the great comics of Italian cinema. He has made a fable about the salvific powers of love and laughter. The movie won the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Actor, and Best Music in 1999, as well as over 50 other awards.
Many critics described the film as brilliant, but there were also dissenting voices: Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chonicle wrote that it is an "ambitious film" but that in the end, "it doesn't work." Charles Taylor of Salon.com flatly writes that the film is "in offensively poor taste."
I agree with Charles Taylor; I found it more and more difficult to watch this film in its second half, which is set in a concentration camp. The idea that everything in the camp could be explained away as a "game" is beyond my suspension of disbelief. The "humor" and "love" in the film are portrayed with no regard for the countless families ripped apart and destroyed by the Nazi machinery of death. I do not find Life is Beautiful funny, and most definitely not "beautiful."
One other thing: I can imagine that someone out there might think that this film is "Holocaust lite" and therefore suitable for children. Even if you accept the sophisticated view of the film prize awarders, and see this as great comic cinema, it is not a film for learning about the Holocaust: the Holocaust is incidental to it. Please don't take a child to it.
Posted in Italy
Tagged Comedy, Holocaust, Racism
Biloxi Blues
Biloxi Blues (1988) is the second play in Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical "Eugene" trilogy, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Matthew Broderick, who originated the role on Broadway. Most of the story is set in the barracks of an army base in Biloxi, MS, in 1945, where 20 year old Eugene Jerome struggles with heat, mosquitoes, virginity, and an eccentric drill instructor (played by Christopher Walken) . As one of only two Jews in the barracks, he has to cope with the anti-Semitism of the sergeant and the other recruits, and with the general sense that he has somehow landed on an alien planet a long, long way from Brooklyn. His best friend is the other Jew, Arnold Epstein, played by Corey Parker.
Biloxi Blues is first and foremost a young man's coming-of-age story, and as such, it follows the conventions, and accomplishes that in fairly conventional ways. One more interesting aspect of the film, though, is the way that two young actors, Broderick and Parker, portray the two Jews in the company. Some of the roles are clear in the screenplay, but the choices made by the actors and the director pose us a fascinating question: when one is a Jew, a new Army recruit deep in the bowels of the South, surrounded by mostly unfriendly anti-Semites, what is one to do about that fact?
Eugene experiments with various approaches: he wisecracks for a while, until it is clear that it will win him no friends. Gradually he attempts to blend in: he doesn't hide his Jewishness, but he wears it lightly, shrugging off slurs, and laughing with the other guys when he can. He's a lousy soldier, but he tries hard to fit in.
Arnold chooses another route: he is not concerned with popularity. He is in fact determined not to fit in, because he does not approve of most of what he sees around him. At one key moment, when asked why he is so pointed about his Jewishness and his insistence on his own values, he says, "The Army has its logic. I have mine." He is utterly uncompromising about his values, and it costs him dearly.
The two Jews drive one another to distraction: from Eugene's point of view, Arnold makes everything unnecessarily hard for himself. He admires Arnold's "constant and relentless pursuit of truth, logic, and reason," but it interferes with his own efforts to keep his head down and get along.
From Arnold's point of view, Eugene seems to stand for nothing at all. Eugene's real coming-of-age doesn't happen among the usual trappings and conventions: it isn't his first sexual experience, or his first experience of love, it's his discovery that there is something in his life worth dying for. I won't spoil the film by saying more.
How do you decide when to stand up for your beliefs, and when to duck the question? Has anyone ever made an anti-Semitic joke when you were in earshot? What did you say or do? How about a racist joke, or a homophobic joke? Where is the line (is there a line?) between "political correctness" and standing up for your values?
Biloxi Blues makes an interesting companion piece to Gentlemen's Agreement. They portray the same period, although Biloxi Blues does so with forty years' hindsight. Gentleman's Agreement shows the workings of anti-Semitism in genteel New York society; Biloxi Blues shows it in the coarse melting-pot of an Army boot camp. What are the differences, if any?
Tagged Anti-Semitism, Assimilation, Comedy, Jewish Values, Racism
Tagged Arab, Comedy, Interfaith, Jewish Values, Racism
Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy (1989) is an Oscar winning movie based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by by Alfred Uhry. It recounts a 25-year relationship between an elderly Jewish woman (Daisy, played by Jessica Tandy) and an elderly African-American man (Houk, played by Morgan Freeman) in Atlanta, GA. Their story begins uneasily, as Miss Daisy's son (played by Dan Aykroyd) decides she can no longer drive her own car, and hires Houk to drive her. Gradually they negotiate a working relationship which over time becomes a friendship. The film spans the years from 1948 until 1973, years of tremendous social change in America.
Wikipedia notes that this was the last PG-rated film to receive the Best Picture Oscar (at this writing, in 2009).
Some readers may be surprised that I list this film as a "must see" when I didn't give that designation to Schindler's List. I list it because this is a movie that nearly anyone can watch without having nightmares about it, and at the same time it portrays anti-Semitism and racial prejudice in both their overt and their more subtle forms.
At one key point in the film, a Alabama state trooper comments to his partner out of earshot of Daisy and Houk that she is an "old Jew woman" being driven by an "old n—r man." The menace in that scene, and in a later scene of the Temple bombing in Atlanta make it clear that Daisy and Houk have more in common than may have been apparent at the outset. Complicating the matter, though, is the fact that Daisy is very much a product of her time: her own racist and classist inclinations are a barrier between the two almost to the end of the film. The greatness of this film lies in its focus on the humanity of Houk and Daisy as they navigate their times and make discoveries about one another, without a need to sugarcoat Daisy.
This film also serves as a reminder that while some American Jews did indeed support the civil rights movement at great risk to themselves and their communities, that history of risk does not obviate the need, then and now, for each individual to examine his or her own attitudes and behavior, and to make teshuvah (a profound change) if need be.
Perhaps the most wonderful thing about Driving Miss Daisy is that it deals with all these very serious issues with a light hand and a great deal of humor. A must see!
Tagged American Jewish History, Anti-Semitism, Comedy, Jewish Values, Racism


#CJSReads decided our first Nesbo would be Macbeth! We all have his entire Harry Hole series on hand but when time doesn't allow a binge series read... well, you gotta start somewhere!
I'm not a big fan of Shakespeare. I realize that maybe that takes away from my cred as a reader, but hey, you like what you like right? Yes, I like some of the storylines but typically any retelling or the like of his work (unless in movie format) doesn't really pique my interest a lot. SO why was I so excited to read this? Because I've heard a zillion things about Nesbo so I wanted to check him out for myself AND because I found the drug lord/gambling/craziness interpretation appealing.
This read fairly slow for me. It took me quite a bit to get into it. At first, I thought it was just my mood at the time so I set it down and then picked it up again. It did get better the further I got in but it never really compelled me like other books have.
There's no doubt Nesbo is a talented writer. And while my memories of Macbeth from high school/college came back as I was reading this... I was fairly just ok throughout my entire read. Nesbo has amazing attention to detail and sets up the atmosphere in a beautiful way. I think most people will probably love this - especially if they have a love for Shakespeare.
I haven't read the Shakespearean play in probably a decade, so I know the basics of the story, just not crystal clear on all of the specifics. Jo Nesbo is also an author that I have been meaning to get to - those TBRs just make it so hard - and I was excited to finally have the opportunity to prioritize him. MACBETH is a great one to start with because it is a standalone, so it's a solid chance to get familiar with his writing.
This is definitely a re-imaging of MACBETH, so the plot is there, it just has a crime fiction twist to it. Nesbo knows how to set the scene. His descriptions and attention to detail pull you into that spot and keeps you there. The character development was incredible and you become invested in them as the story goes on. While this does look like a dense read, it moved at a fairly good pace. Shakespeare isn't for everyone, and I think this would be a good way to introduce new readers to MACBETH.
If you're a fan of MACBETH or Jo Nesbo, then you'll have to pick this one up!
Like my other CJS reads counterparts, I too have had the Harry Hole collection by Jo Nesbo on my shelf for YEARS and have never picked one up. I have always felt like I needed to carve out a significant amount of time to be able to binge them and opportunity hasn't presented itself. Which is why I was so excited when I found out that Jo Nesbo would be taking a crack at a retelling of Macbeth. Macbeth is actually my favourite text to teach. I love the betrayal, the guilt and the toxic masculinity. So, I felt like I was killing two birds with one stone; reading an author I had been dying to read AND perhaps gain another perspective and teaching tool when teaching this work.
I have been a big fan of other novels in the Hogarth Shakespeare collection (and am eagerly anticipating the Hamlet portrayal by Gillian Flynn- AH!) but now that I have finished Macbeth, my feelings are completely mixed.
I really did love the angle that Nesbo chose to portray these characters. I thought the idea of setting the characters up as corrupted cops and high level organized crime members was FANTASTIC. I especially loved the role the witches as a major mob boss and "cracked out" prostitutes; what a brilliant move. I also loved the way that drugs played a role; it really did make the text more modern and more easily understood. I loved how dark the portrayal was. Nesbo did a fantastic job at bringing Shakespeare into the modern times (even though this novel is set in the 1970s).
However, regardless of the characterization, I cannot deny that it was so SLOW. Not only is this a hefty and dense novel but it also moved at glacier speed. For someone who was familiar with the play, I was hoping he move more swiftly through the plot. Instead, I found it completely drawn out and, at times, distracting. I continuously checked to see how many pages I had left to read each chapter, since it seemed to be dragging on, and it would take me right out of the story.
Was it well written? Absolutely. Was it for me? I'm not too sure.


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Digital Economy: The Mandelson letters
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010/03/digital_economy_the_mandelson.html
There are references in the edited article that I have posted to further reading. I would suggest that you go to the url above if you wish to see the full freedom of information release complete with the links.
Last September, as debate raged about the government's plans to crack down on illegal file-sharing - and the extent to which they might have been influenced by lobbying - the BBC put in a freedom-of-information request to the Department for Business. We requested information about any correspondence relating to online piracy or illegal file-sharing.
Now, after a long wait, we've been supplied with a stack of letters to and from Lord Mandelson and other ministers relating to this issue. Those looking for a smoking gun - perhaps a despatch from a Hollywood tycoon warning "Cut 'em off or else!" - may be disappointed.
But the letters do show a sustained campaign of lobbying in favour of the Digital Economy Bill by music-industry trade bodies - and by opponents trying to persuade Lord Mandelson that some of its measures will be damaging to civil liberties, as well as being costly and ineffective.
I have gone through the correspondence to provide edited highlights - and you can look at the documents themselves by clicking on the links at the bottom of this post. Readers may of course wish to "crowdsource" a search for some unnoticed gem.
The first letter is in July, after the publication of the Digital Britain report, but before Lord Mandelson decided to toughen up the measures against illegal file-sharers. The trade body Respect For Film is obviously impatient for the report to be acted on: Lavinia Carey of the British Video Association writes:
But a few weeks later, Lord Mandelson announced that the bill was going to be toughened up, bringing in those technical measures which could see repeat offenders disconnected temporarily from the internet for illegal file-sharing.
In August, the internet service provider Orange warned that the measures would be "expensive to implement and operate", were unlikely to be successful, and could have unintended consequences. The ISP said that the threat of disconnection "could exacerbate the problem of copyright infringement by encouraging users to encrypt their data."
In late September, U2's manager, Paul McGuinness, wrote to the business secretary welcoming the tougher stance, and warning that it was crucial the measures were implemented as soon as possible.
Other trade bodies weighed in with their support. The music-licensing body PPL told Lord Mandelson, "It is time we had an online world more akin to the High Street than the wild West."
The Music Publishers Association said a significant reduction in unlicensed file-sharing was a "critical goal for the UK music industry" which played an enormous role in the country's economy and culture.
Feargal Sharkey of UK Music said online piracy was "shaking the economic foundations on which the entire music industry depends," and attached statements of support from musicians including Lily Allen, Gary Barlow, Mika, and Mark Ronson. Alesha Dixon, saying she was joining her fellow musicians to condemn illegal file-sharing, wrote: "I feel it is no different to theft".
The documents released by the Department for Business also include many letters from constituents protesting about the bill, passed on to Lord Mandelson by MPs. One letter has a note from MP Clare Short in which she confesses "I am afraid I do not really understand the complaint but I would be grateful for your response."
But did the office of the Isle of Wight MP Andrew Turner merely cut and paste from a constituent's angry denunciation of the bill? A letter from the MP to the business secretary, passing on the constituent's correspondence, starts "Dear Mr Mandelson", but is then headed "Ramifications of Mr Mandelweasel's 3 strikes and disconnect policy".
"It is crucial to the success of content providers in a digital economy that this legislation gets onto the statute books before the General Election"
You can draw your own conclusions as to what that sentence is implying.
It seems that very heavy lobbying by industry lobbyists has influenced Mandelson towards his view. His haste in trying to get it passed before the next election may have something to do with the possibility that he will be looking for employment after the election. Nod,nod and wink, wink!
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Astronomers Discover Cosmic Radio Bursts From Beyond the Milky Way
Melissa Stusinski
Astronomers announced that they have discovered the first cosmic radio bursts that came from a galaxy other than the Milky Way. While the source of the light bursts is not yet known, likely triggers can include merging or exploding stars.
A radio burst is a quick spike of light from a point in the sky. It is made up of longer wavelengths in the radio portion of the light spectrum. While a single radio burst was detected six years ago, researchers are not sure if it came from the Milky Way or beyond.
There were four radio burst detections in total and NASA announced that they came from billions of light-year away. That guarantees that they did not originate inside our galaxy.
The discovery of the cosmic radio bursts was announced in the July 4 issue of Science. The explanation comes from an international team, including one person from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The observations were made from the Parkes Observatory in Australia.
Dan Thorton, who headed up the new study, stated, "The radio bursts last for just a few milliseconds and the farthest one that was detected was 11 billion light-years away." The findings will likely open the door into a new area of research and a new class of eruptive cosmic events. Thornton added:
"You have to look at the sky for a very long time to find these. The reason that we're detecting them now is we've simply looked long enough."
Research team member Simon Johnston added, "Staggeringly, we estimate there could be one of these flashes going off every ten seconds somewhere in the sky." He went on to say, "With the ability to detect these very fast sources we are opening up a whole new area of astrophysics."
While the initial paper has been published, the Parkes Observatory is being used to scan for further cosmic radio bursts from outside our galaxy.
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Underworld Director Len Wiseman Joins X-Men TV Series, The Gifted
The show premieres on October 2.
byAlex Gilyadov
Posted Aug. 16, 2017, 8:58 p.m.
Underworld director Len Wiseman has joined FOX's upcoming X-Men TV series The Gifted.
Deadline reports Wiseman will serve as an executive producer and will direct the show's second episode, "A New World."
Wiseman will be teaming up with The Gifted creator/showrunner Matt Nix once again, as the duo executive produced the Fox drama A.P.B. Wiseman also recently served as executive producer on FOX's Lucifer and Sleepy Hollow.
The Gifted is set to premiere on October 2, with the pilot being directed by Bryan Singer. It follows the story of two ordinary parents (True Blood's Stephen Moyer and Person of Interest's Amy Acker) who find out their children have mutant powers. The family are forced to run from a hostile government and join an underground network of mutants who are fighting for survival.
For more on the new series, read about how it's connected to the X-Men films and take a look at the main characters in The Gifted.
Alex Gilyadov is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
Release Date: Oct. 16, 2017
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DWU senior Hart interning with GPAC commissioner
Dakota Wesleyan University's Amanda Hart has always stayed busy since starting her college career. The Alexandria native and senior guard has spent much of the last four years playing basketball, interning with the NAIA and writing for the DWU st...
By Aaron Saunders
Dakota Wesleyan University's Amanda Hart has always stayed busy since starting her college career. The Alexandria native and senior guard has spent much of the last four years playing basketball, interning with the NAIA and writing for the DWU student newspaper.
Hart recently added another activity to her resume - Great Plains Athletic Conference commissioner intern. "I am really excited. It is a great opportunity to get my foot in the door," Hart said. "This is a lot different from some of the things I have done in the past, but I am glad to get to do things that I don't normally do because it is a great learning experience." This semester, the senior is working with GPAC Commissioner Corey Westra, remotely from Mitchell. Hart said she met Westra through DWU Athletic Director Curt Hart, her father. She said Westra asked if she would be interested in working with him and she accepted. Her duties include writing press releases, updating the website and doing day-to-day conference operations. On the court, Hart is averaging a team-high 11.9 points per game. She ranks 12th in NAIA's Division II in 3-pointers made per game with three. She is also 13th in the NAIA in 3-pointers made with 51. "This is all about managing my time," Hart said. "The first week was cool and I really enjoyed it. It is really amazing to see how (Westra) has narrowed things down to send things out to the masses. He can do five things at one time and that is really cool." Hart said she would like to use the internship to help figure out what route she wants to take when she graduates. The senior is majoring in sports management and English with a journalism emphasis. "I want to make contacts and network," Hart said. "Everything up to this point has been trial and error, and I am really trying to figure out what I want to do and what career path."Dakota Wesleyan University's Amanda Hart has always stayed busy since starting her college career.The Alexandria native and senior guard has spent much of the last four years playing basketball, interning with the NAIA and writing for the DWU student newspaper.
Hart recently added another activity to her resume - Great Plains Athletic Conference commissioner intern."I am really excited. It is a great opportunity to get my foot in the door," Hart said. "This is a lot different from some of the things I have done in the past, but I am glad to get to do things that I don't normally do because it is a great learning experience."This semester, the senior is working with GPAC Commissioner Corey Westra, remotely from Mitchell.Hart said she met Westra through DWU Athletic Director Curt Hart, her father. She said Westra asked if she would be interested in working with him and she accepted.Her duties include writing press releases, updating the website and doing day-to-day conference operations.On the court, Hart is averaging a team-high 11.9 points per game. She ranks 12th in NAIA's Division II in 3-pointers made per game with three. She is also 13th in the NAIA in 3-pointers made with 51."This is all about managing my time," Hart said. "The first week was cool and I really enjoyed it. It is really amazing to see how (Westra) has narrowed things down to send things out to the masses. He can do five things at one time and that is really cool."Hart said she would like to use the internship to help figure out what route she wants to take when she graduates. The senior is majoring in sports management and English with a journalism emphasis."I want to make contacts and network," Hart said. "Everything up to this point has been trial and error, and I am really trying to figure out what I want to do and what career path."
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Through prototyping and testing the Persuasive Patterns card deck, I've held a series of workshops to explore how the cards are best used. The goal was to come up with product ideas making both new and existing products more persuasive – but along the way, I was amazed about the troubles most participants have, defining their own design goals.
As I conducted test after test, I also found the key to successful use of the cards being as much being a good facilitator as it is defining useful goals and conducting useful exercises.
Defining good and useful goals to design for is vital to any design task. Without clear design goals, you are designing with no clear direction, purpose, and intent. Good goals help articulate the problem your product tries to solve: the need it satisfies and the value it provides.
The most effective designers are those who end up with a product that reflects their original intent; those who problem-solve within the framework of understood and well-defined problems. Time spent investigating needs, visions, wants, and dreams will dramatically pay off in the final product. It is through the union of design goals and reality that we can create great products.
A common flaw when choosing the right design goal to design for, is to either focus either too much on user goals or or too much on business goals. Focusing solely on user goals might result in suffering profits. Focusing solely on business goals will most likely result in the same – profits will follow user activity, but most likely will not make users stick around for long.
Start by defining your business goals; desireable outcomes of your business. Business goals should represent the change you want in your business. What change do you want to achieve? Ask yourself these questions: What are you hoping to accomplish with your website? What are the three most important priorities for your website? What do users have to do, in order for your business to be successful?
Goals are specific strategies to leverage to accomplish your overall business objective. Where your business objectives operate on a higher strategic level like "sell more stuff", "create happy customers", and "improve marketing effectiveness", goals are the next drill down.
How do we get users to upload more pictures?
How do we get more pageviews?
How do we convert readers to members?
How do we get users to tell us what they like?
How do we get users to spend more time with our service?
How do we get users to comment more?
Keep going exploring new questions until you feel as if you have struck the change that will make your business go in the right direction. For your business to change in the right direction, you will want to influence user behavior. The business goals you want to design for should be mapped to the behavioral goals you want users to do in order to make your business change.
It is common to settle on one goal only to find out that the real goal was an important variety.
Continue to look for the "why" of why users are doing what they are doing – until you have found a user goal that is concrete enough for you to be able to satisfy it.
Then, look at what goals your users have. Why did they come to your site in the first place? What problem do they want help with? What job do you help them solve? Look for reasons why users are doing what they are doing: for the essence of their actions. Continue to look for the "why" of why users are doing what they are doing – until you have found a user goal that is concrete enough for you to be able to satisfy it.
The next step is to combine the two worlds. Business- and user goals need to match for your continued success – so you want to aim for the sweet spot in the middle. You want to find which of your business goals that align with what users want.
Usability always has the user in the center, but once you dive into motivation, psychology, and conversion tactics, the danger lies in forgetting the user's perspective.
For further inspiration, browse the Persuasive Design Patterns section of this site.
Good design goals are business goals expressed as behavioral goals. Where a business objective might be to "increase the number of paid subscribers", your business goal could be to "get more paid subscribers via the sign up form", then your behavioral goal would be to "get more people to click on the register button" or "help people understand our pricing plan options".
Behavioral goals represent changes in the way people act. They are observable and measurable changes – also in users' cognitions and emotions. One business goal often matches many behavioral goals. Stating goals in behavioral terms will result in more focused and effective brainstorming exercises.
Behavioral goals represent changes in the way people act.
So you finally broke down your business objectives into business goals and converted that into specific user behavior you want encourage. You are almost set.
The next step is putting your goals to use; to create designs that aim to create the change in the way people use your product that the goal states. However, once the design is live, it is vital that it's possible to observe and measure if the change actually occurred. To assess whether your design was successful.
A common pitfall when picking design goals is, that they become too vague and hard to monitor progress against. Generally, you want to aim for your goals being SMART.
Specific goals provide a clear direction against which to make effective decisions. They should not be open to interpretation and thus explicit about outcome.
Measurable goals help users follow, monitor, and evaluate progress. Measurable goals make the process empirical and thus provide evidence to compare and benchmark.
Achievable goals are feasible for the specific user targeted with the resources available. Match users' differing skill levels with Appropriate challenges. If the ultimate goal is not immediately achievable, consider intermediary behaviours as objectives, allowing the end result to be reached via a series of smaller, more achievable steps.
Realistic goals motivate users as they seem within reach. Unrealistic goals de-motivate as they seem too far away.
Time-bound goals keep users from procrastinating and sets clear expectations as to how a goal should be prioritized.
Designing for clear goals is to design with purpose and intent. It's a step away from just making something that is beautiful, but ultimately doesn't work in its context. You are making something for a specific purpose, so why not try to fill that purpose through its design?
The mature designer thinks every design decision he makes through. Doing so without goals is near impossible – or at least without purpose. But be careful, merely designing for goals isn't enough for your design to be successful. First you need to find the right goals. A good place to look is the sweet spot in between user goals and business goals.
I've found this approach for defining useful design goals through a large number of workshops. I've had the chance to perfect them along the way as I was beta-testing my latest project: The Persuasive Pattern Card Deck. The cards will ship in the spring of 2016 – until then, you can pre-order the cards at a favorable early-bird discount.


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Even after avoiding the puddle by gathering your abaya and performing a perfect long jump technique, you step in the puddle. And, chances are that it will be way deeper than it looked.
2. Those freakin' drivers whooshing past.
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3. Rain falls downwards. Hair reaches upwards.
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Russian missiles rain down on Ukraine as West pledges enduring support
The mayor of Mykolaiv city said a Russian missile strike killed at least three people.
29 June,2022 03:22 pm
KYIV (Reuters) - Russian forces struck at targets in the Mykolaiv area of southern Ukraine on Wednesday and intensified attacks on fronts across the country as NATO members met in Madrid to plan a course of action against the challenge from Moscow.
The mayor of Mykolaiv city said a Russian missile strike killed at least three people in a residential building there, while Moscow said its forces had hit what it called a training base for foreign mercenaries in the region.
In the east, the governor of Luhansk province said there was "fighting everywhere" in the battle around the hilltop city of Lysychansk, which Russian troops were trying to encircle.
The governor of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine said Russian shelling had increased there too in the past few days.
"Several villages have been wiped from the face of the earth," Kryvyi Rih governor Oleksander Vilkul said.
The stepped-up attacks took place as Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces make slow but inexorable progress in a conflict now in its fifth month, and followed a missile strike on a shopping mall that killed at least 18 people in central Ukraine on Monday.
Nonetheless, Western analysts say the Russians are taking heavy casualties and running through resources, while the prospect of more Western weapons supplies reaching Ukraine, including long-range missile systems, made Moscow's need to consolidate any gains more urgent.
Far from the fighting, leaders of NATO countries were meeting in the Spanish capital Madrid to thrash out policy in response to Russian actions, and also to any Chinese threat.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said members of the military alliance would supply Ukraine with weapons for as long as necessary.
U.S President Joe Biden told the summit the United States was strengthening its forces in Europe based on threats from Russia.
NATO was also due to invite Sweden and Finland to become members, having overcome objections from Turkey.
Russia has long complained about a perceived expansion of Western blocs towards its borders, but its invasion of Ukraine - which it calls a "special military operation" - has served to give new impetus to NATO. The European Union has also awarded Ukraine candidate status in light of the invasion.
The mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Senkevych, said eight Russian missiles had struck the city, including hitting an apartment block. Photographs showed smoke billowing from a four-storey building with its upper floor partly destroyed.
Russia's defence ministry said its forces carried out strikes on a military training base for "foreign mercenaries" near the city and also hit eight ammo depots and a fuel dump.
Reuters was not able to independently verify the reports.
A river port and ship-building centre just off the Black Sea, Mykolaiv has been a bastion against Russian efforts to push West towards Ukraine's main port city of Odesa.
The Mykolaiv strikes took place just two days after a Russian missile hit the shopping mall in Kremenchuk. Rescuers were still searching for dozens of missing on Wednesday.
The Kremenchuk attack drew international condemnation. Moscow denied targeting the mall and said it had struck an arms depot nearby, which exploded.
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy's office said the Russians had also fired missiles at civilian infrastructure in Sumy region in the past 24 hours, killing two civilians.
Britain's Ministry of Defence, in its regular assessment on the conflict, said it expected Russia to continue making strikes in an effort to hamper the resupplying of Ukrainian forces on the frontlines.
"Russia's shortage of more modern precision strike weapons and the professional shortcomings of their targeting planners will highly likely result in further civilian casualties," it said.
Ukrainian armed forces commander General Valery Zaluzhny said Russia had fired around 130 missiles on Ukraine within the last four days - an indication of the intensification of attacks.
Russia has denied targeting civilian areas but the United Nations says at least 4,700 civilians have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Zelenskiy addressed the U.N. Security Council remotely on Tuesday, describing Russia as a "terrorist state" and urging the Security Council, where Moscow has a veto, to expel it from the United Nations.
Fighting meanwhile raged further east in Luhansk province, a key battleground in Russia's assault on the industrial heartland of the Donbas region.
"There is fighting everywhere. The enemy is trying to break through our defences. And since they don't succeed, they fire with all the weapons they have, erase all the villages from the face of the earth," Luhansk governor Serhiy Gaidai said on television.
The battle for Lysychansk in Luhansk follows the fall of Sievierodonetsk, its sister city across the Siverskyi Donets River on Saturday.
Its capture would expand Russian control of the Donbas, one of Moscow's strategic objectives since its failure to seize Ukraine's capital Kyiv in the early stages of the war.
The Moscow-imposed military-civilian administration in Kherson region said it had begun preparations for a referendum on joining Russia, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
Kherson, a port city on the Black Sea, sits just northwest of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula.
Russia-installed officials said their security forces had detained Kherson city mayor Ihor Kolykhayev on Tuesday after he refused to follow Moscow's orders. A local official said the mayor was abducted.
Govt seeks recommendations from refineries over Russian oil import
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Ukraine president says Africa in a hostage in the war with Russia
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This is a story by Varda the lady of starlight who opened my eyes to see the past instead of the future. she showed me a great ravine and said to me: "what do you see boy of the prophets?" and I said: "I see land which used to have a river cutting through it but its now dried up" so she took me to the top of the mountain called Ered Wethrin and she said: "the rage of god will fill the land up to the mountains until where we now stand is completely gone" and i saw bowls of rage poured out from the sky like water and it filled the whole land and the rivers flowed again until the entire mountains were covered. then she said to me: "what do you see boy of the prophets?" and i said: "i see sea, but the entire sky of stars is reflected in it like a great mirror" then she said: "count the stars, if you can" so i started counting. and i was counting for the whole night but aventually i said to her: "what you have asked me to do, numbering the stars, is too hard how am i meant to do it? look i keep losing my count." so she said "the number of the stars you see in the mirror is the key to the stars" and i said: "what do you mean?" so she said: "doors have locks do they not? and locks have keys also. the mirror is a door, and the key is the stars. then the number of the stars will open the sea, and it will give you the treasure within." so i said to her: "what is the treasure?" she said: "it is the light of the trees of valinor." so she said a number, but i could not hear it because it was like the sound of many elephants. so after she took me into the door mirror i saw inside a place that looked like hell. i said: "please take me away from this place so that i do not die here" because it was full of spikes and evil powers like the feeling you get in a graveyard. she said: "it is the base of morgoth?" so i said: "you are the one who knows". so we walked into the base, and i saw the throne of morgoth there (it looked like this)
then on top of the throne was two dead trees and inside was a bright light like the light of the stars itself. i said: "is that them? the silmarils?" she said: "it is" so i said: "take them!" she said: "no, since this is just a vision" then i woke up and wrote down the vision according to teh story she told me in the vision
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That's beautiful Nook. That's the place where the eagles were tortured until they became vultures. My mother was one of them.
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I aint readin allat
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Would she tell me the number?
This seems to be a common theme in this community everyone waits for a post to come for 2 weeks and it's not even posted then everyone is so excited but don't seem to care about the one doing all the work... (Wheeler). Like who is this Nook character? I don't see him working for never then one day.... (No offence)
So, you have seen Utumno! This is indeed where Melkor ruled before it was abandoned after the Ainur sieged it. It was flooded by Illuvitar after The Dark Upheaval occurred in the North.
Good Story!
Donec mors nos separaveri


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The topical segment has been sub-segmented into hydrophilic creams, corticosteroids, antibiotics, whereas oral medication has been bifurcated into corticosteroids and others such as oral analgesics and antibiotics. Dressings segment has also been divided into no sting barrier film, hydrocolloid, honey impregnated gauze, hydrogel, silicone coated dressing, and others such as silver leaf dressing and GM-CSF gauze. On the basis of distribution channel, the market for radiodermatitis has been classified into hospital pharmacy, retail pharmacy, and online stores. Geographically, Asia Pacific has been identified as the most lucrative region, owing to its vast population base.


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Mean Girls Holiday Song Just Released
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Mean Girls is a ferociously funny new musical from an award-winning creative team, including director Casey Nicholaw (Aladdin, The Book of Mormon), composer Jeff Richmond ("30 Rock," "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), and book writer Tina Fey ("30 Rock," Bossypants). Vogue cheers, "MEAN GIRLS is HILARIOUS! The cast is sensational – expert comedians with fierce voices and acting chops to match." USA Today says, "We'll let you in on a little secret, because we're such good friends: GET YOUR TICKETS NOW."
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*Closed end lease financing available through April 30, 2019 for a new, unused 2019 Audi A6 Sedan 3.0T quattro Premium with automatic transmission, on approved credit to highly qualified customers by Audi Financial Services through participating dealerships. Monthly lease payment based on MSRP of $59,895 and destination charges less a suggested dealer contribution resulting in a capitalized cost of $52,867. Excludes tax, title, license, options, and dealer fees. Amount due at signing includes first month's payment, capitalized cost reduction, and acquisition fee of $895. Monthly payments total $24,531. Your payment will vary based on final negotiated price. At lease end, lessee responsible for disposition fee of $495, $0.25/mile in excess of 32,500 miles and excessive wear and use. Offer not valid in Puerto Rico. See your Audi dealer for details or, for general product information, call 1-800-FOR-AUDI. © 2019 Audi of America, Inc.
*For an individual, member of an individual's household (if the vehicle is reported, titled and registered in the same household as the individual; proof of residency required), or business customer who currently owns or leases a MY2009 or newer BMW, Land Rover, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz or Tesla. Proof of ownership required. Limit one incentive per eligible VIN. Audi of America, Inc. will pay $3,000 towards the lease or purchase of a new, unused 2019 Audi A6 model through a participating Audi dealer. Offers are non-transferable. Not redeemable for cash. No trade-in required. Incentive paid to dealer and requires dealer application of incentive towards lease or purchase of eligible vehicle. May not be combined with Audi Owner Loyalty, Dealer Small Fleet Incentive, or Courtesy Vehicle Lease Programs. Rental car companies, fleet leasing, fleet management or dealer-affiliated fleet companies are not eligible. Offer ends April 30, 2019. See your Audi dealer for incentive details or call 1-800-FOR-AUDI. Audi of America Bulletin A19UACQ2; ©2019 Audi of America, Inc.
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Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is an international facility hosted and owned by the University of Victoria (UVic), and managed and operated by the ONC Society, a not-for-profit established in 2007. The NEPTUNE and VENUS observatories, operated by ONC, provide critical long-term ocean observing and ocean science capacity. ONC collects and provides data needed to address pressing scientific and policy issues. The cabled infrastructure supplies continuous power and Internet connectivity to a broad suite of subsea instruments from coastal to deep-ocean environments. In 2009, ONC identified the need to daisy chain instrument platforms at a few of our locations to allow for an increased number of instrument platforms without running additional cables back to our nodes. The use of fibre optic cables allow data transmission over great distances but do require the addition of in-line media convertors and in some cases power up to 400 VDC between ONC junction boxes. In 2015 ONC approached Teledyne Oil and Gas - ODI to provide this specialized Electrical / Optical Flying Lead (EOFL) capable of the media conversions and power requirements of the ONC network. Four units were delivered and installed in 2016 of of Canada's west coast. ONC will discuss the sequence of this tool development and its field results to date.


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Q: javascript function to get all images in html I wanted to have a javascript function to basically return an array of all the img src there is in a page, how do I do this?

A: You can easily get an array containing all img elements via document.getElementsByTagName():
var images = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
var srcList = [];
for(var i = 0; i < images.length; i++) {
    srcList.push(images[i].src);
}

Instead of document.getElementsByTagName('img') you could also use the document.images collection.

If you are using jQuery, you can also use $('img') which gives you a jQuery object containing all img elements.
var srcList = $('img').map(function() {
    return this.src;
}).get();

A: There is a document.images collection, so:
function allSrc() {
  var src = [];
  var imgs = document.images;
  for (var i=0, iLen=imgs.length; i<iLen; i++) {
    src[i] = imgs[i].src;
  }
  return src;
}

Edit Update for ECMAScript ES5
Array.prototype.map.call(document.images,function(img){return img.src});

If you have ES6 arrow functions available:
Array.prototype.map.call(document.images, img => img.src);

A: You can use jQuery to find all of the image tags. The jQuery code will be as follows:
images = []
$('img').each(function(idx, img) {
    images.push(img.src)
});

A: I understand this is old however just wanted to add that you can one line it:
images = [].slice.apply(document.getElementsByTagName('img'), null);

I'm not sure of cross browser support.

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In May 2022, students at AIS West performed "The Little Mermaid Jr." The performance had a cast of 20 students and 10 backstage crew members. Cast and crew were composed of secondary students between grades 6-12. There were two evening performances for audiences made up of students, parents, teachers, and administrators. The show was very well received. Playing the part of Ariel, the "little mermaid" was Salma and Yara. Both actresses demonstrated exceptional vocal skills and delighted the crowd with their renditions of "Part of Your World." Karima and Hussein played Sebastian the crab and showed off their singing abilities with the show-stopping number, "Under the Sea."
The play was directed by Larissa Cahill; music direction was by Patricia Granter; the choreography was by Lina Rodriguez, and the set was designed by Kaitlin Kurdziel. Cast and crew were thrilled to be onstage again after a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Audiences were charmed and enchanted by the story, songs, dances, and exquisite handmade costumes. After last year's success, AIS West Drama will be adding two performances for the 2022–2023 school year. A murder mystery will be performed the first week of February, and a musical is scheduled for June.


Conversation, poetry and music inspired by one of Britain's most beautiful and unspoiled landscapes – with composer Damian Montagu, brass player and former Paul Weller sideman, Stewart Prosser, the Tippett Quartet, and actor Hugh Bonneville, who returns to Chichester after his recent performance as Dr Stockmann in Festival 2016's An Enemy of the People.
This world premiere live performance of In A South Downs Way also includes the single, The Path Towards Tomorrow, which went straight to No. 1 on the iTunes Classical chart after Hugh chose it as one of his tracks on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. The recently released album, which itself topped the Official Specialist Classical Chart, is the inaugural work of a project entitled Walk Upon England, which celebrates the countryside as a source of creativity in music and spoken word.
All proceeds will be donated to The Weald & Downland Open Air Museum and Chichester Festival Youth Theatre.


Step aside Penn State. Your 2-year reign as the biggest stadium in college football is over.
Two plus years...$226 million plus dollars...much planning and hard work have paid off in one of the most stunning college football stadium designs ever. The renovations to Michigan stadium are the standard for any school that attempts to do the same. The perfect balance of old and new. Traditional mixed with modern design.
It's not too often that a powerhouse school like Michigan takes its biggest and most iconic symbol and changes it so drastically. But Michigan saw a need to expand its offerings within and around the stadium on game-days. We needed bigger and more concourses, more restrooms, more concessions, better crowd flow, more updated indoor seating and press areas, and state-of-the-art premium seating. And with that, Michigan saw an opportunity to do something that would not only blend naturally with the existing bowl, but look like it had been there since the days of Fielding H. Yost and Fritz Crisler.
And they nailed it. This is without a doubt, a beautiful blend of design and execution.
I know I'm sounding like a complete homer here, but I am so proud of the way this stadium looks and feels. I am proud to be a Michigan fan and call this is our house. This truly is...the Big House!
I can't wait for September 4th!
Where is the photography from? Did you get to go to a preview day or something?
I remember the first time I ever saw the stadium live, from Main St., age 8, thinking, "That's it?" Didn't look like much from that angle to a lad looking for the biggest bowl in North America!


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Гу́та () — село, входит в Богуславский район Киевской области Украины.

Население по переписи 2001 года составляло 301 человек. Почтовый индекс — 09750. Телефонный код — 4561. Занимает площадь 1,2 км². Код КОАТУУ — 3220681102.

Местный совет
09750, Киевская обл., Богуславский р-н, с. Дмитренки

История
В ХІХ веке деревня Гута было в составе Медвинской волости Каневского уезда Киевской губернии.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Гута на сайте Верховной рады Украины
 Административно-территориальное устройство Киевской области
 Историческая информация о деревне Гута

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Disclosure: The Green Pet Shop sent a Cool Pet Pad and Cover to Lapdog Creations, free of charge for review purposes. I was not compensated for this review and all opinions expressed are my own.
The calendar says September and the Pumpkin Spiced Lattes may be flowing, but the high temps outside have made it clear that summer is not over yet (we're actually in the middle of a late-season heat wave). Although I am more than ready to say goodbye to the heat and humidity.
Dog parents know that when the temps soar, we need to take precautions to ensure our furkids don't get over heated. Sure, we can chill out inside with the AC blasting, but we all know that eventually they get as stir-crazy as we do. I don't know about your pack, but the Lapdogs are always itching to get outside to lounge on the deck. Fortunately, they won't stay out long if it's too hot, but I always feel badly for them because I know how much they want to be outside in that fresh air.
Since they love laying on small mats and outdoor rugs, I thought why not a cooling mat? I've seen several types on the market and was thinking about purchasing one when we got the opportunity to review a Cool Pet Pad from The Green Pet Shop. I was quite excited for the Lapdogs to try it out... and yes, I'll admit, I started wondering if they came in human sizes.
While some of the cooling pads I saw required you to actually fill them with water and/or freeze an insert, the Cool Pet Pad requires no messy preparation on your part. You won't find yourself on a 95 degree day realizing you forgot to stick something in the freezer when Fido wants to lay outside with you.
The Green Pet Shop's Cool Pet Pad begins to cool your dog as soon as she lies on it, thanks to the pressure-activated non-toxic gel. No water or electricity is needed, making the Cool Pet Pad the only green cooling pad on the market (per their website). I really appreciate that!
So, how does it actually work? The gel inside the pad is activated by weight or pressure. This means that as soon as your dog lies down on the pad, the cooling effect starts and lasts for up to 4 hours. After a short period of non-use, the Cool Pet Pad recharges automatically - without any cords, freezing, or fuss. According to The Green Pet Shop's website, you can place the pad in the refrigerator and it will stay cool even longer, however we did not test this method for our review.
As a large dog Mom, I also appreciate the fact that Cool Pet Pad is available in four sizes, as some cooling pads I saw seemed to be designed for smaller dogs only.
We received the Large size for our review, which seems to be a nice fit for each of the Lapdogs. If Zeus were still with us, I would have went with the Extra Large for sure. Don't be afraid of sizing up, as a larger bed will work great for smaller dogs who like to move around a lot. I also think a large size would work great for multi small-dog households.
The Lapdogs weren't quite sure what to make of the Cool Pet Pad at first. Teutul just sat on it to "claim" whatever this new thing was. I kept telling him to lie down and he just stared at me as if to say "I don't know what it is, but it's new so I must sit here for awhile to see what happens."
Penny just wanted to play which resulted in some quite adorable out-takes during our photo shoot.
Eventually after the "what's this new thing" curiosity went away and everyone went about their usual business, Sophie figured out just what the Cool Pet Pad was and how awesome it feels on a super hot, late summer day. She laid on the pad for at least half an hour before coming inside.
Penny also eventually learned just how awesome it was... on a rather hot day at the race track.
I laid the Cool Pet Pad on top of her bed and after a few sniffs, she laid down and seemed to be quite the little happy camper race track dog. Of course we don't take her with us if the heat is extreme, but we all know about hot days out with our dogs. I can honestly say that I saw a huge difference in her behavior on this particular hot day by having the Cool Pet Pad. She was certainly much more comfortable... so much so that I'm still wondering about those human-sized cooling pads.
We'll certainly be taking our Cool Pet Pad to the race track more often. As an on-the-go dog mom, I really like that not only is the Cool Pet Pad super easy to use (open the box, unfold and lay it down), but it's also portable and convenient. When we packed it to take to the track, I tossed it in a small tote bag so that I had "handles" to carry it with, but you can just fold it up and put it in the car or trunk as well.
Cool Pet Pad is great for both inside and outside use, and works well in the car or crate. It is well made, and folds up easily to store or transport. The pads can be cleaned with a soft cloth, mild soap and water. Just make sure you allow it to dry completely before use or storage. Speaking of storage, it is recommended that you store your Cool Pet Pad in a cool, dry place and if planning to store it for an extended period of time, sealing the product in a plastic bag may increase the pad's useful life.
While the Cool Pet Pad is ready to go as-is and easily wipes clean, you can purchase the optional Cooling Pad Cover to help protect the pad against dirt and scratches. The cover easily slips over the cooling pad and is machine washable and dryable. As you can see from our photos, we reviewed the Cool Pet Pad both with and without the cover. I'm not sure the Lapdogs had any preference, but I like having the cover to protect against extra dirt and grime (especially if we use it at the race track).
I know summer is winding down for most of us, but there are still plenty of hot days left. If you have a pooch who loves to lounge like the Lapdogs, give the Cool Pet Pad a try. And, of course, the holidays are right around the corner. Add a Cool Pet Pad to your pup's Santa list this year. He'll thank you (and maybe even smile as big as Tut).
GREAT review! I need to tell mom to read this post and get me one of these for the car. We don't have AC and sometime mom needs to bring me places when it is hot out. (She never leaves me in the car.) Having the windows down does help but his would provide added comfort! Again, thank you for this great review!!!
My kids like to sleep on the cool tile floors or on top of the air vents so I'm sure they would like those. I'd feel better that they weren't sleeping on hard surfaces to stay cool.
I think our Arizona pups would definitely love that!
Oh wow! Since we moved to the desert, we probably need one of these. My Virginia/Carolina based black fur-friends are not used to the desert heat.
We have one of those water-filled cooling pads, and while I think it works, it tends to slosh around a bit, and the dogs aren't always thrilled about that. I might have to try this product instead!
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